Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:13:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Mark Powell" <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Removing all ZFS support from boot process Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102101447240.69722@rust.salford.ac.uk>
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Hi, FreeBSD 8.1 r218475. I have a raidz2 with 6x2TB devices; 3x2tb HDD and 3 stripes of 2x1TB HDD. I have ufs / on USB flash. After boot0 starts and the USB boots it displays Drive C: is disk0 etc. for each drive. Then I can hear all the drives making noises. Sounds like the devices are being tasted, with the spinning char. This goes on for sometime. Often the machine hangs solid and I have to reset. It can take 3 or 4 attempts before the OS boots. I can tell it's hung by pressing the caps lock key. If the capslock light doesn't work I hit reset and cross my fingers. It's been like this for as long as I can remember (i.e. many different source trees). How can I fix this? I thought it might be a BIOS fault and not FBSD, so I was considering a new motherboard. However, if I have ufs / can't I stop all this tasting/zfs nonsense at boot and let the kernel do it all later and therefore not susceptible to any possible BIOS faults? I tried to rebuild with: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=no in make.conf, but it seems to make no difference. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford IT Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 6843 Fax: +44 161 295 6624 www.pgp.com for PGP key
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